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You Can’t Make This Up

K-pop, Explained

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Explained is a new pop doc series from Vox and Netflix. Each episode is a mini 15 minute documentary covering pop culture, tech, science, and beyond. So on this week's You Can't Make This Up, we borrowed one of Vox's own to host today's episode. Sean Rameswaram hosts the hit podcast, Today, Explained. He's joined by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, the hilarious comedy duo and co-hosts of the pop culture podcast, Las Culturistas. Matt and Bowen watched K-POP, Explained, and are here to discuss the South Korean music phenomenon. There may or may not be singing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to you can't make this up. It's a new companion podcast from Netflix.

0:04.0

My name's Sean Ramosfurm, and every Monday to Friday you can find me hosting another podcast.

0:12.0

It's called Today Explain. It's a daily news

0:15.1

explainer from Vox but right now I'm explaining this show. Each week on You Can't

0:20.7

Make This Up we feature interviews discussing a different Netflix series or film with special guests.

0:26.0

And like the best stories out there, all the stories you'll hear on this show are true.

0:31.0

So why am I here today? Fair question. Great news. In addition to explaining

0:36.7

the news every day on today explained, Vox just launched a show on Netflix.

0:47.0

It's called Explained. This is the show's undeniably great theme music.

0:56.0

Explained is a new pop doc series,

0:59.0

15 minute documentaries about pop culture, tech, science, and beyond.

1:03.7

There are new episodes every Wednesday covering big ideas

1:06.9

from monogamy and designer DNA to cryptocurrency.

1:10.4

And back on this show, you can't make this up, we're bringing in comedians, podcasters, and journalists to watch different episodes that explained and take us down the rabbit hole with them. So for our first crossover episode, we're featuring a hilarious comedy duo, co-host of the pop culture

1:25.3

podcast plus Culturistas, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. Bowen and Matt watched K-pop explain.

1:31.9

It's an episode all about the South Korean music phenomenon, K-pop.

1:36.0

But K-pop reaches way beyond South Korea.

1:39.0

It's an international sensation.

1:41.0

It's an entire culture. It's a lifestyle.

1:44.0

Anyway, enough of me talking about K-pop. Let's hear Matt and Bowen talk about K-pop.

1:48.6

Matt Rogers, Bowen Yang, go!

1:50.8

My name is Matt Rogers.

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